AP World History Unit 6 - Lesson 6.3

Sepoys

________ (Indian soldiers) made up the majority of British army in colonial India.

Mahdist Revolt

________: an Islamic revolt against the Egyptian government in the Sudan,

Philippine Revolution

________: a rebellion against brutal Spanish rule in 1896.

Philippines

Spanish took control of the ________ in the 16th century.

Treaty of Berlin

accorded special legal status to some religious groups, following Russias victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1878

Proclamation of 1763

a British decided boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide in order to respect the territorial rights of the Native Americans

Indian Removal Act

In 1830 the US declared for removal of Native Americans residing within state borders in the East to a newly created Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma

Ghost Dance Resistance

resistance to the Native American hate policies and colonizer culture

Philippine Revolution

a rebellion against brutal Spanish rule in 1896

Spanish American War

a conflict between the United States and Spain to end Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and ended up with U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America

Aboriginal People

Native Australians who have the oldest continuous culture on Earth

Maori

indigenous people of New Zealand

Treaty of Waitangi

protected the property rights of the Maori people

Maori Wars

Military conflict between the Maori and British over rapid settlements

Pan Africanism

Western-educated Africans who shared nationalism

Xhosa Cattle Killing

Xhosa natives killed over 400,000 cattle and crops in the hope that the spirits would take away the British settlers

Samory Toure War

Samory Toure (chief) led a group of warriors to establish a kingdom in Guinea but the French stopped them and eventually sent him into exile in 1898

Yaa Asantewaa War

Queen warrior Yaa Asantewa led a rebellion (part of series of wars) against British control over the Asante Empire (modern day Ghana). British won in 1900 and the Asante Empire became part of the Gold Coast colony.

British Raj

The direct rule of the British on the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia

Cherokee

Tribe of North American natives who were targeted in the Indian Removal Act.